STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -- Ronald Greenberg's family has deep and influential roots in Jefferson County. Going back a couple of generations, his relatives' business endeavors have included Steubenville's lone TV station (since sold) and the city's largest grocery store (now closed).

Greenberg, 67, himself ran a Steubenville location of a family jewelry store -- Greenberg and Son -- for 30 years after he returned from college in 1973. While business was always pretty good, the area's economic struggles made it difficult for him to expand, he said, and the store at the Fort Steuben Mall closed in the early 2000s after a dispute with mall management.

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Since then, the local economy only has gotten worse. The city's largest steel mills and coal mines employ only a fraction of the people they once did, Greenberg said. The mall is not doing well now -- a Sears anchor store recently closed, and another anchor store, Macy's, is slated to close soon.

"When you spend a life somewhere trying to develop something, and you see what's happened, it makes you very sad. That's about all I can say," he said.

Greenberg's children have left town to pursue their careers, and he often travels. But he still owns a house in Steubenville, and he is a regular at Naples Spaghetti House downtown when he's in town.

He said he's hopeful that President Donald Trump's emphasis on reviving American manufacturing and encouraging energy production will help Steubenville thrive again. He said the trillions the United States has spent on wars in the Middle East could now be invested in places like the Ohio Valley.

"The last 30 years killed the steel business, and the last 30 years killed the coal business," he said. "The new administration might possibly be able to bring some of those businesses back."

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